Summertime at Karridale Cottages and Hop Farm is spent outdoors enjoying the beautiful weather, peaceful bush lands, gorgeous beaches and the serenity of the Blackwood River. Whilst guests are busy exploring the surrounds we at Karridale Hop Farm are busy work...

Its amazing how quickly 12 months can go by, especially when it's the first year of a new business venture.

We're taking this opportunity to reflect on what we have accomplished but more importantly to plan for 2016. Here are a few things that happened in the l...

Happy New Year!

With the longer days and warmer conditions of the new year comes exponential growth in the hop yard!

Our young hop bines are progressing well up their trellising with some varieties already setting flowers and cones. We continue to hand weed and...

Spring is one of our favourite times of year as nature comes out of hibernation and plants begin to germinate and emerge with fresh green shoots.

As a new hop yard, we are waiting anxiously for our first new shoots to come out of the ground to nuture and supp...

The first phase of the Karridale Hop Farm has been constructed! 

We'll be planting our first rhizomes over the coming weeks with hop varieites including Cascade, Chinook, Perle, Nugget, Goldings, Cluster, Hallertau and Fuggles, of course (we had to, our chocol...